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lawyers can get me now!)
Haven't got time for thank yous. Will do them on next chapter
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Previous chapter:
"I believe we were right here, Mr Potter!" She said before pulling the front of his robes and kissing him, which he returned gratefully.
"So I was right!" Said a voice from the back of the common room.
They broke apart but still held onto each other.
Much to Harry's horror, misfortune and just enough bad luck to top off the evening, Seamus got up and turned around to look at them.
$ Chapter 16: Cooties and kisses.
So... what do you have to say for yourselves?" He said as he walked round the two who were still holding hands and standing close.
"Why are you down here?" Harry asked him when he found his voice.
"Waiting for you to come back from your little 'adventure', now I see I shouldn't have interrupted the kissing couple!" He said, his expression changing from resembling a mob boss to his own laughing self.
They had nothing to say but both Harry and Lilac blushed bright red.
"What is really happening now with you two? And don't give me that just friend nonsense!" He laughed.
"Let's sit down, this could be a long night!" Harry groaned.
Actually, its not even night anymore, it's 2 in the morning!" Seamus grinned.
"Let's sit anyway!" Lilac said and they each took a seat in an armchair by the fire.
"Now tell me, what made you two decide to suddenly get together tonight?" Seamus asked.
"Technically, we didn't get together tonight." Harry said nervously.
"What? And you two made me feel guilty for teasing you! If it wasn't tonight, when was it?"
Lilac mumbled something but Seamus couldn't hear what it was.
"I can't hear you, speak clearly. What are so nervous about? I'm not going to kill you!" He said.
"On the train, I asked her out!" Harry said and Seamus smiled again.
"So that's why you two didn't come with us, and disappearing, and the kiss on the cheek in the dorms, why didn't see it?" He said and put his hands in his hair.
"Sorry we didn't say anything, we were worried about your reaction. Well I'm tired, I'm going to bed, night boys!" Lilac said and kissed Harry's cheek before going up into her dorm.
"You're a lucky guy!" Seamus said looking back to Harry.
"What?" Harry answered.
"You're lucky, I would die to get a girl within the first week of school." He said glumly looking into the fire.
"You know, it's only been 4 days of school, I could get Lilac to set you up with someone."
"But they don't like me like that!" He said.
"I know one that does!" Harry smiled and Seamus looked up at him.
"You're joking?"
"No, but I thought you believed in the Cooties theory."
"That's just something our dad's made to scare us, remember?" Seamus grinned.
"How could I forget? I remember being scared to touch my mom for a week!" Harry laughed.
"I remember when your dad came home and kissed your mom, and how we watched to see if his butt would fall off!"
"Good times!" Harry said wiping a tear from his eye.
"Yeah, so who is my date?" Seamus asked excitedly.
"We'll make it a blind date, but I guarantee you will like her!" Harry smiled.
"Ok, but now I want all the details of how you asked Lilac out and your first kiss" Seamus grinned.
"Well, we were sitting on the train after you and Romulus left, and I tried to ask her, but then my dad was in the mirror, then I asked her and she said she had never felt this way about another guy. But as we were about to kiss, the lady with the sweet cart opened the door and after she left, we kissed." Harry said as saw the amazement in his best friends eyes.
"What is it like?" Seamus asked.
"I can't really describe it other than it was like a fire in my stomach!" Harry smiled.
"Do you love her?" Seamus asked.
"Yes, with all of my heart!" Harry sighed dreamily.
There was a bit of silence then, out of the blue: "What does love feel like?"
"The best feeling in the world, like I would die just to be with her. Like when she's not around, I'm missing a piece of myself. I want to shout out to the world that I love her!" He said looking into the fire again.
"Then why don't you tell anyone? Why have you both been hiding it?" He asked with curiosity and eagerness.
"We will tell eventually, it's just, what if people don't accept it. What if they get jealous or try to split us up?" He sighed.
"You just told me how much you love her, did you mean it?"
"Of course I did!"
"Then why do you care if people won't accept it?"
"I know, I just get worried for her safety!"
"Then just protect her, you don't need to keep it a secret! If they try to split you up, and it's true love, it won't happen and if it does, it will come back!" Seamus smiled at his best friend.
"Thanks Seamus, I don't know what I would do without you!"
"No problem for my best friend and person who's going to step up my date!" He smiled and Harry chucked a cushion at him.
"Oh, You want to play like that?" Seamus said picking up a cushion as Harry geared up with another cushion.
"I sure do!" Harry said, pounced on his best friend and whacked him repeatedly over the head but not before Seamus flipped it around and clobbered Harry with the pillow.
"Why did Robin want you today anyway?" He asked as he whacked his messy haired friend on the head.
$$Whack$$ "She $$whack$$ made me $$whack$$ a $$whack$$ deal for $$whack$$ for $$whack$$ you $$whack! $$"
"What type of deal?" Seamus asked, still beating Harry with the pillow.
Harry somehow managed to get the photos out his pocket and Seamus stopped hitting him.
He took the pictures and his eyes widened. "What did you have to do for these?"
"Tell her about me and Lilac, that's where we were tonight!" He said and Seamus looking in shock at his friend.
His eyes widened even more as he asked: "You did that for me?"
"Of course I did! You're my best friend!" He said and Seamus hugged him.
"Thank you so much! I will make it up to you somehow, someday!" He said and Harry hugged back, a bit shocked at his friend's behaviour.
"Let's go get some sleep!" He said and Seamus let him go and got off him.
"Yeah, we have lessons, tommo-, I mean today!" He smiled.
"Yeah, and we have to pour water on Romulus to wake him up later or should we do it now?"
"I say now!" Seamus said with an evil grin on his handsome face.
They headed up to the dorm and set out their escape plan before Seamus whispered the incantation and water came pouring out of his wand onto Romulus.
Romulus woke up coughing and spluttering and his first thoughts were: "Harry!"
He hurried over to Harry's bed and pulled back the curtain, there, sprawled across the bottom of the bed was Seamus and Harry was lying back without even removing the blankets of his robes.
"They must have fallen asleep playing Exploding snap, I will get whoever did this in the morning!" He said and went back to bed.
When he was sure he had gone back to bed, Harry opened his eyes, sat up and then realized Seamus had really fallen asleep.
He closed his eyes again and snuggled back into bed "At least the hardest person for me to tell now knows!" He thought to himself and fell asleep with a smile on his face and a friend on his bed.
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REVIEW! No cliffy this time!!!!
Haven't got time for thank yous. Will do them on next chapter
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Previous chapter:
"I believe we were right here, Mr Potter!" She said before pulling the front of his robes and kissing him, which he returned gratefully.
"So I was right!" Said a voice from the back of the common room.
They broke apart but still held onto each other.
Much to Harry's horror, misfortune and just enough bad luck to top off the evening, Seamus got up and turned around to look at them.
$ Chapter 16: Cooties and kisses.
So... what do you have to say for yourselves?" He said as he walked round the two who were still holding hands and standing close.
"Why are you down here?" Harry asked him when he found his voice.
"Waiting for you to come back from your little 'adventure', now I see I shouldn't have interrupted the kissing couple!" He said, his expression changing from resembling a mob boss to his own laughing self.
They had nothing to say but both Harry and Lilac blushed bright red.
"What is really happening now with you two? And don't give me that just friend nonsense!" He laughed.
"Let's sit down, this could be a long night!" Harry groaned.
Actually, its not even night anymore, it's 2 in the morning!" Seamus grinned.
"Let's sit anyway!" Lilac said and they each took a seat in an armchair by the fire.
"Now tell me, what made you two decide to suddenly get together tonight?" Seamus asked.
"Technically, we didn't get together tonight." Harry said nervously.
"What? And you two made me feel guilty for teasing you! If it wasn't tonight, when was it?"
Lilac mumbled something but Seamus couldn't hear what it was.
"I can't hear you, speak clearly. What are so nervous about? I'm not going to kill you!" He said.
"On the train, I asked her out!" Harry said and Seamus smiled again.
"So that's why you two didn't come with us, and disappearing, and the kiss on the cheek in the dorms, why didn't see it?" He said and put his hands in his hair.
"Sorry we didn't say anything, we were worried about your reaction. Well I'm tired, I'm going to bed, night boys!" Lilac said and kissed Harry's cheek before going up into her dorm.
"You're a lucky guy!" Seamus said looking back to Harry.
"What?" Harry answered.
"You're lucky, I would die to get a girl within the first week of school." He said glumly looking into the fire.
"You know, it's only been 4 days of school, I could get Lilac to set you up with someone."
"But they don't like me like that!" He said.
"I know one that does!" Harry smiled and Seamus looked up at him.
"You're joking?"
"No, but I thought you believed in the Cooties theory."
"That's just something our dad's made to scare us, remember?" Seamus grinned.
"How could I forget? I remember being scared to touch my mom for a week!" Harry laughed.
"I remember when your dad came home and kissed your mom, and how we watched to see if his butt would fall off!"
"Good times!" Harry said wiping a tear from his eye.
"Yeah, so who is my date?" Seamus asked excitedly.
"We'll make it a blind date, but I guarantee you will like her!" Harry smiled.
"Ok, but now I want all the details of how you asked Lilac out and your first kiss" Seamus grinned.
"Well, we were sitting on the train after you and Romulus left, and I tried to ask her, but then my dad was in the mirror, then I asked her and she said she had never felt this way about another guy. But as we were about to kiss, the lady with the sweet cart opened the door and after she left, we kissed." Harry said as saw the amazement in his best friends eyes.
"What is it like?" Seamus asked.
"I can't really describe it other than it was like a fire in my stomach!" Harry smiled.
"Do you love her?" Seamus asked.
"Yes, with all of my heart!" Harry sighed dreamily.
There was a bit of silence then, out of the blue: "What does love feel like?"
"The best feeling in the world, like I would die just to be with her. Like when she's not around, I'm missing a piece of myself. I want to shout out to the world that I love her!" He said looking into the fire again.
"Then why don't you tell anyone? Why have you both been hiding it?" He asked with curiosity and eagerness.
"We will tell eventually, it's just, what if people don't accept it. What if they get jealous or try to split us up?" He sighed.
"You just told me how much you love her, did you mean it?"
"Of course I did!"
"Then why do you care if people won't accept it?"
"I know, I just get worried for her safety!"
"Then just protect her, you don't need to keep it a secret! If they try to split you up, and it's true love, it won't happen and if it does, it will come back!" Seamus smiled at his best friend.
"Thanks Seamus, I don't know what I would do without you!"
"No problem for my best friend and person who's going to step up my date!" He smiled and Harry chucked a cushion at him.
"Oh, You want to play like that?" Seamus said picking up a cushion as Harry geared up with another cushion.
"I sure do!" Harry said, pounced on his best friend and whacked him repeatedly over the head but not before Seamus flipped it around and clobbered Harry with the pillow.
"Why did Robin want you today anyway?" He asked as he whacked his messy haired friend on the head.
$$Whack$$ "She $$whack$$ made me $$whack$$ a $$whack$$ deal for $$whack$$ for $$whack$$ you $$whack! $$"
"What type of deal?" Seamus asked, still beating Harry with the pillow.
Harry somehow managed to get the photos out his pocket and Seamus stopped hitting him.
He took the pictures and his eyes widened. "What did you have to do for these?"
"Tell her about me and Lilac, that's where we were tonight!" He said and Seamus looking in shock at his friend.
His eyes widened even more as he asked: "You did that for me?"
"Of course I did! You're my best friend!" He said and Seamus hugged him.
"Thank you so much! I will make it up to you somehow, someday!" He said and Harry hugged back, a bit shocked at his friend's behaviour.
"Let's go get some sleep!" He said and Seamus let him go and got off him.
"Yeah, we have lessons, tommo-, I mean today!" He smiled.
"Yeah, and we have to pour water on Romulus to wake him up later or should we do it now?"
"I say now!" Seamus said with an evil grin on his handsome face.
They headed up to the dorm and set out their escape plan before Seamus whispered the incantation and water came pouring out of his wand onto Romulus.
Romulus woke up coughing and spluttering and his first thoughts were: "Harry!"
He hurried over to Harry's bed and pulled back the curtain, there, sprawled across the bottom of the bed was Seamus and Harry was lying back without even removing the blankets of his robes.
"They must have fallen asleep playing Exploding snap, I will get whoever did this in the morning!" He said and went back to bed.
When he was sure he had gone back to bed, Harry opened his eyes, sat up and then realized Seamus had really fallen asleep.
He closed his eyes again and snuggled back into bed "At least the hardest person for me to tell now knows!" He thought to himself and fell asleep with a smile on his face and a friend on his bed.
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REVIEW! No cliffy this time!!!!